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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1932
Page
3
The Decatur Negro High School commencement sermon at First Baptist Church featured Rev. L. R. Womack outlining seven lamps. Truth memory sacrifice obedience power beauty and life were presented as foundations for constructive living and national uplift.
Officials of the Benevolent Society announce a Wednesday morning meeting at ten o'clock at the Benevolent Society Hospital. The session will start as a membership gathering and be followed by a board meeting. Members are urged to attend.
In the palace room the group contemplates Pauo and Livingston rumors as tension rises. Holmes vows to confront the elusive culprit while preparations for a late night boat excursion begin to investigate a mysterious firelight on the uninhabited Oomoa atoll.
Mr and Mrs John B Harlow with Mrs Edith Swavely depart for a two week motor journey through the Carolinas and into Virginia They will visit relatives in Charlotte North Carolina and Richmond Virginia before returning to Decatur.
Twenty six of the 137 girls at Auburn for the 17th state short course receive scholarship trips funded by the L and N Railroad and the Western Railway of Alabama. Winners include Thelma Jones Edna Stuckie Ruth Boon Lucile Wait Lavelle Colquitt Franklin Williams Margene Denson Rebecca Banks La Nelle McLain Sammy Lane Rice Tressie Wood Pauline Tyler Gustavia Hyde Flo rissa Barker Janice Stringfellow Lorraine Eddins Cunny Hall Emma Johenson Selene White Lois Spain Louise McFerters Ezell Williams Mary Dunnaway Edna Orr Nellie Fuller Alma McClurkin.
Commencement exercises at Eva High School concluded with a sermon by Dr. E. R. Naylor president of Athens College. Music was arranged by J. Fred Mor.
The program featured Hon. 8 A Lynne as commencement speaker with Lessie Lewis giving the salutatory and Peggy Merrell the valedictory. Principal H F Sherrod awarded diplomas to Peggy Merrell Lessie Lewis Carmen Tanner Christine Crawford Florence Murphree Horace Childers Edron Childers Curry Arrington Ace Densmore Anne Hipps and Hazel Kelley. Medals for best declamation went to Ace Densmore and best reading to Jane Wilson as the school marks its third year of high school work at Eva.
More than 150 Home Demonstration Club members gathered at the Agricultural school in Athens for the annual rally. Club reports highlighted food and nutrition work with ribbons awarded to Wheeler, Pettusville, and City Limits clubs. A noon luncheon featured guest speakers and a visit to the Demonstration Farm Home.
A note invites readers to bring old magazines or a bundle of garden flowers to the local rest room as a friendly gesture. The message praises sharing pleasures from home with neighbors and offers tips on fresh garden vegetables and home made cheese.
An ad promotes B C headache remedy claiming fast relief within three minutes. The formula is prepared by a registered pharmacist and marketed as non habit forming, useful for headaches muscular pains neuralgia fever and nervous distress. It sells in 10 cent and larger packages at drug stores.
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